MANUAL - Taurus

FIRING
1. DANGER: Keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction and your
finger away from the trigger when cocking any firearm.
2. WARNING: Never carry, handle or leave unattended any firearm
which is cocked and ready-to-fire. When cocked, it will fire from
slight pressure on the trigger. An accidental discharge could easily
result if you fall or drop the firearm, or if the firearm is struck or
disturbed by someone or something.
3. WARNING: Never fire any semi-automatic firearm with your
finger, hand, face, or other part of your body over or adjacent to
the ejection port, or in any position where you may be struck by
reciprocating movement of the slide (or bolt). Both the ejection of
the empty cartridge cases and the movement of the slide (or bolt)
are part of the normal operating cycle of semi-automatic firearms,
and pose no safety hazard to the shooter if the firearm is held in a
normal grip and fired at arm’s length (in the case of a handgun) as
intended by its design.
4. CAUTION: Never allow other persons to stand beside you where
they might be struck by an ejected cartridge case. The case is hot,
and may be ejected with sufficient force to cause a burn, or cut, or
injury to an unprotected eye. Make certain there is a clear,
unobstructed path for safe ejection of the fired case. Remember,
the case may bounce off a hard object nearby and strike you or
someone else.
5. DANGER: If while shooting, your firearm develops ANY
mechanical malfunction or binding, or “spits” powder, gas, or if a
cartridge primer is punctured or a cartridge case is bulged or
ruptured, or if the report on firing does not sound quite right, STOP
SHOOTING IMMEDIATELY. It may be dangerous to continue.
UNLOAD THE FIREARM. DO NOT try “one more shot”. Take the
firearm and ammunition to a gunsmith for examination.
6. SAFETY FIRST: While shooting any semi-automatic firearm, an
unfired cartridge case may occasionally become jammed between
the slide (or bolt) and the barrel. Clear the jam as follows, WHILE
KEEPING THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION: remove the
magazine, then pull back the slide (or bolt) and hold or lock it to
the rear. The jammed cartridge or case now can be removed by
shaking it out or by picking it out.
10 ALWAYS KEEP THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION AND FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER.